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Supreme Court Supreme Court appointment. Brennan was given a recess appointment as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on October 15, 1956, shortly before the 1956 presidential election, and was sworn into office the following day.
Jul 20, 1990 · 07/20/2016 12:01 AM EDT. On this day in 1990, Justice William Brennan Jr. resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court after having served nearly 34 years on the nation’s highest judicial tribunal ...
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Nov 26, 2010 · The legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., shown on April 20, 1972, is spelled out in more than 1,300 legal opinions. John Rous/AP hide caption
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United States portal. v. t. e. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.
Jul 21, 1990 · July 21, 1990 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. WASHINGTON — Justice William J. Brennan Jr., the 84-year old liberal leader of the U.S. Supreme Court and one of the most influential jurists of...
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Nov 2, 2019 · President Ronald Reagan and the Supreme Court Justices pose for an official portrait in 1982. Front row left to right: Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan Jr., Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger, President Reagan, Byron Raymond White, and Harry A. Blackmun. Standing left to right, John Paul Stevens, Lewis F. Powell, William Rehnquist and Sandra ...
On October 16, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave Brennan a recess appointment to the United States Supreme Court. Three months later, on January 14, 1957, Brennan was formally nominated to the Court, and the Senate confirmed the appointment on March 19, 1957.
